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Monkeys steal coronavirus blood samples in India

You: "🧐Ah mon cheri I have framed this as a very clever convex optimization problem. I'll derive recoverability bounds and include some non-reproducible tables in my paper"

The guy she said not to worry about "Gon' train this 175 billion parameter model"

India is a post-colonial state struggling to find her bearing and finally, working towards asserting her identity and her true power. USA has always enjoyed privilege that came from looting others, including, yes, Indian wealth and selling our people.

Well, after about 10000 hours of work over 13 years, it's probably about time for this...

I've released my entire "Practical Python Programming" course under a Creative-Commons license. Learn it, teach it, hack it, and have fun.

Protests against police brutality continue into third day in Minneapolis: | Surely headlines should say something about autocracy, questionable mental health of ruler, breakdown of society, and underdeveloped social institutions? No? That's just for Asia?

A year ago, Stripe opened an all-remote engineering office. We hired ~100 engineers and tripled the number of remotes across the company.

Here is what we learned:

Some thoughts:

@ShriramKMurthi A new font i discovered. I'm liking this slender profile fonts for terminal and code. Has multiple stylistic sets (Consolas, Menlo, Fira Mono*), multiple variants and ligations. Hv installation instructions for Mac, Linux and windows; i use only mac.

Here comes summer—and with it the latest carving in my “Thank You All” series, in the Ol Chiki script for the #Santali language of India. More information in our Atlas of Endangered Alphabets at

@b0rk That is why I started my Common Lisp Project of the Day 82 days ago.

Each day I'm learning how to use a single library from CL ecosystem. And make a short post with code examples. To memorize and for future reference.

Mirapakaya bajji stuffed with a peanut masala! It’s a family favourite. 🥰

You’ll find the recipe here:

@trishankkarthik @btbytes I found the blog mentioning this

@trishankkarthik @xgovindx

Bust of a Bodhisattva | Gandhara, 2nd-3rd C

"This bodhisattva’s superbly rendered head is adorned with a slender moustache, an auspicious forehead mark (urna) and an Apollo-like hairstyle and topknot with jewel and pearl net ornamentation."

@BurntOutCase @Sturgeons_Law @omarali50 @asc89 @vaikartana_ BTW, I wrote this a while back.

"Folders" is a programming language where programs are encoded as hierarchies of folders in the Windows operating system.

I admire the kind of demented mania that can come up with gems like this!

👏🏽 @rottytooth

Gillian Anderson gives a devastating performance here … and also a reminder that theatre actors are some of the most extraordinary athletes on the planet. Imagine doing this 3-hour performance, night after night!

[Free online here until 28 May]

want youtube to stop showing you """recommended""" videos? i made a few adblocker rules for that, get 'em here:

@cigardubey it still does, especially in Vedic chanting -- svarita, udaatta etc. [nice little story of Indra, shukra & the demon vrittra and the perils of using the wrong tone!]

(and then there is story -- on context contingent meaning. )

RT @Gilad_Bracha: Following up on a recent discussion on twitter, a blog post:

History as Fact and Metaphor in Tabbali

@btbytes I was playing this song ok repeat for kids today haha

@btbytes I was playing this song ok repeat for kids today haha

RT @Zotzcomic: Updated version of my Maya clothing of the late classic (600-900) with added references.

Reminder you can get this poster and more on my redbubble (link 👇):

#maya #mayan #historicalclothing #mesoamerica #indigenous #fashion #historical

@KS1729 Another one
He's reading a translation of a Gopalakrishna Adiga poem

This indicates to me that the Chinese are in trouble.

Very simple, Why would Ray need to say this.

This is what getting paid and propaganda looks like. @RayDalio

The U.S. is in ‘relative decline’ as ‘Chinese power is rapidly rising,’ warns Ray Dalio

Codefence, an embeddable interactive code editor, has added D support. by Paulo Pinto: #dlang

@cigardubey

Pig

The Supreme Court should initiate a simultaneous process under which the process of digitising, in machine-readable form, should be initiated for old cases. This may take time, it may need resources, points out @gchikermane:

@btbytes @M_W_Q There’s a website:

"What are days for? / Days are where we live." Philip Larkin

@sherrod_im what no purple?

It has been a delight teaching mathematica to my 6 year old by learning and copying code from the great master @stephen_wolfram himself @btbytes

TIL about Python's dataclass module -

𝐋𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚'𝐬 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 ~ An interview with retired US Homeland Security Department agent, Mr Domenic DiGiovanni by @Infinitchy on the stolen antiquities of India as he describes the global smuggling network eyeing our heritage.

Wrote a simple script in Go - "Thread Reaper"

(I used to have a shell script [using ~gh/ericchiang/pup] to do the same, but this is noticeably cleaner)

Two BJP MPs 'attend' Taiwan president’s swearing-in 👍👍 MP’s talk about shared democratic values with Taiwan in their message 👍👍

As a German who is used to saying it’s “sixteen o’clock” I wholeheartedly agree with this chart. Source:

RT @longhandnotes: @anant_d @CholericCleric @CJPande1 I learnt recently that Ravindra Jain and Dr. KJ Yesudas pitched this as a song for a Tansen biopic. The director poo-pooed the song as too highbrow but the duo stood their ground. The movie was shelved, but the song has a place in the vocalist's repertoire.

Now, a quick branch into some recent science and observations in music and neurology. I read this article and had no idea that perfect pitch was very common among people with autism:

This blew my mind because perfect pitch is rare in people.

If you use @threadreaderapp to read twitter threads, you might like bookmark I wrote -

It's a single line of javascript that saves you seconds every time you use it (the best kind!)

Excellent blogpost on the number '9' and its 10-multiples in Dravidian by @cobbaltt and the idiosyncrasies and complications of reconstruction.

Slatestatcodex half jokingly proposes loud-talking as a factor in Italy and NYC being bad vs. Korea and Japan.